More Stewart questions!

[Forfarian]

I am confused as to why he is listed as tailor have the time and farm hand the other times. I know people often do different jobs- but it is odd. His marriage certificate even lists ploughman

Not especially odd.

Sometimes, in a small or rural community, people's skills weren't enough to make a decent living, and they worked part time at their trade and part time farming.

[Forfarian]

Is this Christian?

Ancestry  Census  1871 Scotland at Croftmarting Kenmore Perthshire
DEWAR Margaret      40y  head  tenant 3 acres land    b. Kenmore Perthshire
STEWART Christian   12y  niece   scholar                    b. Dull Perthshire
Who is Margaret DEWAR to this STEWART family?

There is a birth of Christian Stewart, parents Thomas Stewart and Christian Dewar, in Aberfeldy on 10 March 1859. Aberfeldy is in the parish of Dull.

In the 1861 census, in Aberfeldy, parish of Dull, are Christian Stewart, 31, with daughters Margaret, 4, and Christian, 2.

In 1871 the household in Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy, includes Thomas Stewart, 44; Christina, 40; Margaret, 14; three younger children and two lodgers, but no Christian/Christina junior.
 
So this is not Christian, daughter of Peter S and Margaret Forbes; and there is no obvious connection between Margaret Dewar and your Peter Stewart's family.

QED.

[annstewartplude]

Is this Christian?


So this is not Christian, daughter of Peter S and Margaret Forbes; and there is no obvious connection between Margaret Dewar and your Peter Stewart's family.

QED.

Christian/Christy had me stumped as well. Peter/Margaret were married 1859- Peter born 1860.
But the 1861 census has Christy as 3 yrs old and Peter 1.
I looked for birth/death certificates, as she doesn't appear consistently in census'. Perhaps a niece?
DEWAR hasn't appeared in my research until this instance.

[Dundee]

Christian/Christy had me stumped as well. Peter/Margaret were married 1859- Peter born 1860.
But the 1861 census has Christy as 3 yrs old and Peter 1.
I looked for birth/death certificates, as she doesn't appear consistently in census'. Perhaps a niece?

Name:    Christina Stewart
Gender:    Female
Birth Date: 22 Jun 1857
Birth Place: Logierait,Perth,Scotland
Father:    Peter STEWART
Mother:    Margaret FORBES

She is at home in 1881 but not 1871.  Forfarian was just showing that the one found in 1871 is not yours.  It is always a good idea to try and track down missing children in case they are with other family on census night.

Debra 

[Dundee]

Peter/Margaret were married 1859

It was 1856.

Debra 

[Dundee]

She is probably the one in service with Margaret JAMIESON in Logierait in 1871.

Debra 

[Forfarian]

Christian/Christy had me stumped as well. Peter/Margaret were married 1859- Peter born 1860.
But the 1861 census has Christy as 3 yrs old and Peter 1.

Christina Stewart, born 22 June 1857, Logierait, parents Peter Stewart and Margaret Forbes. She wouldn't be the first child to arrive before the parents' marriage

I looked for birth/death certificates, as she doesn't appear consistently in census'. Perhaps a niece?

She's described as daughter in 1861, 1881, 1891 and 1901. Maybe the 1871 enumerator just made a mistake and missed her out when he was copying from the schedule to the enumeration book?

Christina Stewart, 47, mother's maiden surname Forbes, died in Rattray in 1906.

DEWAR hasn't appeared in my research until this instance.

Not surprising, since (as I have said) this family had no obvious connection to yours. Dewar is a red herring at this stage. Ignore it.

[annstewartplude]

This death certificate - this is definitely the (ancestor?) you are researching?
 
STEWART Peter   pauper formerly a tailor    married to Margaret FORBES
died 24 December 1878 at Craigs Works Logie Pert
m(ale)    60 years 
Parents:  Duncan STEWART crofter and general labourer (deceased)
              Christina STEWART   M.S.  ROBERTSON (deceased)

Chronis bronchitis  and spasmodic asthma  one year
Heart disease and general dropsy  three months    John SIMPSON    L.R.C.S.  Edinburgh

Informant   Peter STEWART  son   present.

Registered 26 December Logie Pert   John MORRISON  Registrar

When did Christina STEWART, wife of this Peter, die?. Do you have her death certificate?

This is my Peter . I am very confused as to why he was alone in Angus if his wife and children were still alive?
His wife was Margaret, Christian was his mother.

[Forfarian]

She is probably the one in service with Margaret JAMIESON in Logierait in 1871.

Good find!